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By completely deconstructing club music to its most elemental layers, TWIN XXA’s “Eather” is a startling and unexpectedly brilliant avant-garde electronic composition that blends synthetic copies of human voices into jagged stabs of industrial clamor. Everything falls into place in a strange internal logic that heeds its own sense of timing.
In one of the objectively heavier songs of 2019, “Chemical Burn” by the Amsterdam-based female Doom-Noise duo FLOWERS balance plodding doom riffage with everything-in-the-red skronk of feedback drenched guitars tuned to anxiety attack. The video for “Chemical Burn” takes a journey from the pastoral mountains to the unease and industrial bleakness of a city at …
Dreamkiddo is a Future Bass artist out of Saudi Arabia. “Likethat” is a rhythmically complex, shape-shifting track that possesses multiple ear worms in the way its pitch-shifted vocals clash with bright arpeggios and multi-layered percussion. This is the first we’ve heard of Dreamkiddo, but we will definitely reserve a seat at the table for producers …
In this video by Finnish experimental sound artist Hanna Ojala, the natural world and manipulated sounds are combined and soundtracks a gorgeously filmed dance composition that frames the dancers as flashes of silvery light against a pitch black screen. It’s a mesmerizing and haunting visual accompaniment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YtQLVs_ac
Past Present & Tortusa set out for unexplored terrain of ambient jazz storytelling on their debut single “Black Mist”. The Norwegian trio is comprised of a trumpet, upright bass and live-sampling and create an ominous soundscape of plodding bass lines, sonorous bows and sampled/manipulated trumpet laying out elegiac lines that are fed back to the …
For an artist that lists artists like Wolf Eyes and White Suns as inspirations, “Lone” is a gorgeously subdued drone track that relies on relentless overtones and microcosmic tonal shifts to indicating a massive movement floating through the aural field like a wall of fog over trees. It’s a beautiful track that revels in its …
Inspired by his grandfather’s tales of living in the Faroe Islands, the electronic artist has created a gorgeous, pastoral track full of guitar and vocal melodies and downtempo beats that are easy to burrow into. Soundtracking the frozen expanse of the Faroe Islands’ barren landscapes, Koresma layers live drumming and programmed percussion atop synth arpeggios …
Even without the aid of the title “Lungs” or the fact that this track was taken from a new album of Lewis’s that focused on cell regeneration and evolution, this gorgeous composition by the U.K. based cellist seems to breathe in and out with oceanic timing. The artist utilizes his cello, loop pedal and simple …
Utilizing field recordings and floating synth chord progressions, Survival Skills pains a placid aural picture of floating gently above a cityscape, caught on a sudden updraft where sounds come in from indistinguishable sources. At close to 13 minutes, “Sill” pulls you in, making imperceptible tonal shifts throughout its long run time. A track worth getting …